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Black Hands White Cotton Lyrics By The Caboose

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    we’re gonna do a tune right now
    about a story this old field worker
    told out in south alabama

    he said me and my woman
    been working real hard
    in this alabama bottom land earth
    it’s all for the man
    in the big white house
    who living over yonder by the church

    on a sunday morning
    you can hear us singing
    on a sunday morning
    our voices ringing

    everybody singin’
    glory glory hallelujah
    lord can’t you hear me
    talking to ya

    you know the only time
    i ever heard that man pray
    well he stood right up to the lord
    and i could hear him say
    he said lord my crops are dry
    whoa i’m afraid they’re gonna die
    lord you gotta please
    gimme some water

    but all i got in this whole world
    is my black hands and white cotton
    mobile lights they’re forgotten
    glory glory hallelujah
    lord can’t you hear me
    talking to ya

    a new day it’s dawning
    the black night it turns morning
    black hands they’re demanding
    some respect and understanding
    a white man black brother
    they’re hand in hand one another

    singing glory glory hallelujah
    lord can’t you hear me
    talking to ya

    black hands and white cotton
    mobile lights they’re forgotten
    glory glory hallelujah
    lord can’t you hear me
    talking to ya

    glory glory
    glory glory glory now
    lord can’t you hear me talking
    right to ya now

    glory glory hallelujah
    glory glory hallelujah
    oh lord got to hear me talking
    oh lord can’t you hear this talking

    glory glory

    Artist: The Caboose

    Year: 1970

    Decade: 70s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 172